....but, as it was attacked by this hooded crow, it turned away. Click on the picture and look closely above the eagle's body: there's a small aerial visible.
The white tail feathers visible in the first picture, the wedge-shape of the tail, and the aerial confirm that this is a young sea eagle, probably across from Mull, one of the eagles which is carrying a tracking device.
This is the second day running we've seen eagles over Ormsaigbeg. Yesterday there were three, two smaller and one larger, over the ridge of Druim na Gearr Leacainn, the larger driving the smaller pair away. Perhaps the smaller were golden eagles.
'The Raptor', our local bird expert, tells me this may be Marra, a three-year old sea eagle. The white tail feathers will be fully developed when he is about five.
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